On Anniversary of US Embassy Takeover, Virulently Anti-American Exhibit

Iran’s Supreme Leader says his nation’s people are not threatening everyday Americans when they chant “Death to America”.

Khamenei’s website says Tuesday he made the comment while meeting with Iranian students ahead of the anniversary of the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The nuclear deal hasn’t “fundamentally changed anything in the relationship between Iran and the U.S”. “But…the policies of the United States have been against the national interests of Iranian people, [so] it’s understandable that people will demonstrate sensitivity to this issue”.

“Under no circumstances will we allow penetration of Americans in economic, social and cultural areas”, he added.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution also enumerated separatist and counterrevolutionary moves, the botched Nojeh coup by a group of army officers against the Islamic Republic, encouraging Saddam Hussein to invade Iran and continuously helping the hated dictator of Baghdad during eight years of the imposed war as other links in the chain of United States conspiracies against Iran. Rouhani said he would comply with the guidance.

Proving his point, Khamenie recounted years back of history, the United States – supported coup in Iran in 1953, which has been planned and done right at U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

Parsi said by lifting economic sanctions and blocking Iranian efforts to build nuclear weaponry, the US and Iran could de-escalate tensions that have been building for the past 15 years.

The authorities have also arrested three pro-reform journalists, one of whom has been critical recently of Khamenei, news agencies reported on Tuesday.

Nevertheless, it is more likely that Iran nuclear deal to be approved and Iran to return to market by 2016 with 500,000 barrels production rise.

Ismael Asgari, a 79-year-old retired carpenter who has lived around the corner from the former embassy his entire life, said hostility toward America would remain for a few.

The parents of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was killed in a 2012 bombing attack, posted pictures online accusing America of sponsoring their son’s murder. Rouhani has been widely described as a relative moderate by Western leaders and media outlets, but the letter is the latest in a series of incidences of his toeing the line set forth by Khamenei and the hardline Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. A fifth American went missing in 2007, and the Iranian government is believed to have knowledge of his whereabouts.

A military source in Qatar said Iran’s missile capability was considered the biggest conventional military threat to Gulf Arab countries, as well as USA military bases in the region and global shipping routes.